Scouts Honored

July 27, 1986

THE NEW national museum of the Boy Scouts of America has opened on the campus of Murray State University at Murray, Ky., in the southwestern corner of the state. The $2.5 million museum is designed to convey to visitors the values at the heart of the 76-year-old scouting movement. The facility replaces the former Johnston Historical Museum at North Brunswick, N.J., which closed in 1979 when the Boy Scouts moved its headquarters to Irving, Texas. Still incomplete, the museum will be open every day from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m., including weekends and holidays, through Sept. 30, when it will close for completion of renovations. It will reopen next spring. Admission is $4.50 for adults, $3.50 for children 6 to 12. More information: The National Museum, Boy Scouts of America, Murray State University, Murray, Ky. 42071; (502) 762-3383.

BOSTON HARBOR

VISITORS TO Boston can now live on the waterfront in charming condominiums that once served as 19th-century warehouses. These converted buildings on the harbor are handy to museums and the Faneuil Hall Marketplace area, and now serve as bed-and-breakfast homes. At some of these homes, guests are invited to have breakfast aboard the owners' yachts, docked nearby in Boston Harbor. Ferne Mintz of The Bed & Breakfast Agency of Boston (47 Commercial Wharf, Boston, Mass. 02110, 617 523-5761) said her agency handles not only waterfront lodgings but also B&Bs on historic Beacon Hill, Cambridge, the North Shore and Cape Cod. Mintz adds that children are welcome.

GOURMET TRAIN TRIP

CAN IT be that the great days of railroading, with fancy meals in the dining car, are returning? Royal Signet Tours of Chicago is sponsoring an 11- day train trip to Expo 86 and California's wine country, with passengers dining on meals prepared by an award-winning chef. Gourmet Limited I, as the trip is called, will feature the cuisine of Carolyn Buster, co-owner of the Cottage restaurant in Calumet City, Ill., and one of the chefs featured on the PBS series, The Great Chefs of Chicago. The trip departs on Aug. 24 from Chicago's Union Station. The cost is $3,790 per person, and includes all meals aboard the train and accommodations in Vancouver, British Columbia, and Sonoma, Calif. Space is limited to 20 persons. For more information, write Royal Signet Tours, Ltd., 2656 W. Montrose Ave., Chicago, Ill. 60618.

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

FOR MANY a traveler, food is the prime attraction. And food is getting attention in Toronto these days, but the nourishment is strictly for the intellect. The site is the Ontario Science Center, in which hundreds of exhibits, most of them hands-on, demonstrate the principles of science. A major new exhibition devoted to food is in progress through Nov. 2. Exhibits in the show deal with food production, diet, nutrition, processing, digestion, storage and handling. The exhibition is open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily except Friday, when the closing time is 9 p.m. Admission is about $2.25, about $1.50 for those 13 through 17, about 75 cents for those 12 and under and free to those 65 and over. More information is available from the Ontario Science Center, 770 Don Mills Road, Don Mills, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M3CTH 1T3; (416) 429-4100.